Polarization control in an X-ray free-electron laser.

Lutman, A. A.; MacArthur, J. P.; Ilchen, M.; Lindahl, A. O.; Buck, J.; Coffee, R. N.; Dakovski, G. L.; Dammann, L.; Ding, Y.; Dürr, H. A.; Glaser, L.; Grünert, J.; Hartmann, G.; Hartmann, N.; Higley, D.; Hirsch, K.; Levashov, Y. I.; Marinelli, A.; Maxwell, T.; Mitra, A.; Moeller, S.; Osipov, T.; Peters, F.; Planas, M.; Shevchuk, I.; Schlotter, W. F.; Scholz, F.; Seltmann, J.; Viefhaus, J.; Walter, P.; Wolf, Z. R.; Huang, Z.; Nuhn, H. D.

doi:10.1038/nphoton.2016.79

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Polarization control in an X-ray free-electron laser.

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Glaser, L.
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Lutman, A. A., MacArthur, J. P., Ilchen, M., Lindahl, A. O., Buck, J., Coffee, R. N., et al. (2016). Polarization control in an X-ray free-electron laser. Nature Photonics, 10(7), 468-472. doi:10.1038/nphoton.2016.79.

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X-ray free-electron lasers are unique sources of high-brightness coherent radiation. However, existing devices supply only linearly polarized light, precluding studies of chiral dynamics. A device called the Delta undulator has been installed at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) to provide tunable polarization. With a reverse tapered planar undulator line to pre-microbunch the beam and the novel technique of beam diverting, hundreds of microjoules of circularly polarized X-ray pulses are produced at 500–1,200 eV. These X-ray pulses are tens of femtoseconds long, have a degree of circular polarization of 0.98–0.04+0.02 at 707 eV and may be scanned in energy. We also present a new two-colour X-ray pump–X-ray probe operating mode for the LCLS. Energy differences of ΔE/E = 2.4% are supported, and the second pulse can be adjusted to any elliptical polarization. In this mode, the pointing, timing, intensity and wavelength of the two pulses can be modified.